And you are PROUD of that?!?!? Wow. Just Wow.
Posted on 01/01/2010 11:32:02 AM PST by d3b1976
HATE IS WRONG UNLESS IT IS DIRECTED TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH WHOM WE DISAGREE.
By: Andy DeStephano
Why do left wing radicals denounce intolerance unless it’s against something they support? How come it’s acceptable to dehumanize only certain people, beliefs and organizations?
Just recently radio talk show commentator Rush Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital for chest pains. As I searched for news regarding his condition, I was appalled by the comments posted by other readers. The venomous words used to express their distain for his existence were simply horrific. Although disturbed by what I read it certainly comes as no surprise as it seems Conservative bashing has become widely accepted by the Left.
Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman and Ann Coulter are prime examples and targets of liberal attacks; however when Bill O’Rielly commented about Helen Thomas you would have thought he had insulted Mother Theresa. The double standard of what is considered humorous and objective is extremely skewed. In fact, most are just down right mean spirited and foul. In order to be fair and objective, I also take issue when conservatives engage in these practices.
I wish that the very same people that seek to destroy Glenn Beck would have the same passion for destroying Osama Bin Laden. I would like to hear the same people that say Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers are activists agree that Sean Hannity and Mark Levin are commentators not messengers of hate. It would be nice to have these people be as irate when Michelle Malkin is attacked, as they are when Hillary Clinton is criticized. Ultimately I would love to believe the Obama Administration is as passionate about fighting terrorism and enforcing the Patriot Act as they are in eliminating Fox News and supporting the Fairness Doctrine. Once again I must admit none of these will ever happen even though this is change I can believe in.
There’s nobody here that I agree with 100% of the time, and I’m OK with that. I haven’t seen anything zotworthy. And I hates meeses to pieces!
And you are PROUD of that?!?!? Wow. Just Wow.
Name calling and get out of my sandbox definitely qualifies.
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Actually, no it doesn’t. And even if it did then who was the one who started the name calling by implying that Freepers (and the Right) were haters?
Hey, metmom!
How was your New Year?
I have often told my husband that as a “white, straight, Christian, conservative, professional, American male” he is in the last category of people who are allowed to be discriminated against at will.
I think you meant unless it's against something they oppose.
Epic
Put down the Kool-Aid and back away from the keyboard.
Here's what Benito Mussolini had to say about Fascism:
" Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity (11). It is opposed to classical liberalism which arose as a reaction to absolutism and exhausted its historical function when the State became the expression of the conscience and will of the people. Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual; Fascism reasserts The rights of the State as expressing the real essence of the individual (12). And if liberty is to he the attribute of living men and not of abstract dummies invented by individualistic liberalism, then Fascism stands for liberty, and for the only liberty worth having, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State (13). The Fascist conception of the State is all embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State - a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values - interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people (14)."
True, Fascism rejects Communism: but only because it substitutes the State for the Party, and sees militarism as an end in itself, and not just to promote the Party. Fascism also rejects the "class struggle" of the Marxist as the hidden mainspring of history:
Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle. Fascism is likewise opposed to trade unionism as a class weapon. But when brought within the orbit of the State, Fascism recognizes the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonized in the unity of the State (16).
But the thing which makes Fascim leftist is that it does not allow for representative democracy as we know it -- as the following makes clear:
Grouped according to their several interests, individuals form classes; they form trade-unions when organized according to their several economic activities; but first and foremost they form the State, which is no mere matter of numbers, the suns of the individuals forming the majority. Fascism is therefore opposed to that form of democracy which equates a nation to the majority, lowering it to the level of the largest number (17); but it is the purest form of democracy if the nation be considered as it should be from the point of view of quality rather than quantity, as an idea, the mightiest because the most ethical, the most coherent, the truest, expressing itself in a people as the conscience and will of the few, if not, indeed, of one, and ending to express itself in the conscience and the will of the mass, of the whole group ethnically molded by natural and historical conditions into a nation, advancing, as one conscience and one will, along the self same line of development and spiritual formation (18). Not a race, nor a geographically defined region, but a people, historically perpetuating itself; a multitude unified by an idea and imbued with the will to live, the will to power, self-consciousness, personality (19).
This immediately brings to mind the Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Führer of Adolph Hitler; and it is completely unlike the "Melting Pot" of the United States.
Do keep in mind that the objection to large numbers of immigrants is not that they have a different language or color: it is that they (with the aid of Marxists and Democrats, but I repeat myself) refuse to assimilate, and do not voluntarily join in internalizing and promoting American values.
Which ties into "what did Obama do right?" Not much; and certainly, bowing is not one of the things he did right. Americans DO NOT BOW.
Cheers! Nice try, though.
Cheers!
where do you see a right to abortion, or prostitution or drugs for that matter? These are certainly not God given rights, or rights as defined in the constitution. In fact, the constitution specifically states we have a right to LIFE.
Your arguement is a straw man when you start talking about the right to kill and harm others.
Tactical nukes are good for fixed targets, armoured columns, chokepoints such as a bridge with divisions massing behind it. Not so good for scattered groups of guerillas who blend into and hide among an indigent civilian population.
And of course, have you considered the untoward consequences should one of our tactical nukes gets captured by jihadists? We can't just assume that they'd apologize and hand it back, can we? /sarc>
Cheers!
Hu R U?
It's only a right if it is morally permissible, not sinful.
Tiger Woods didn't have a right to bang 15 skanks while married.
Cheers!
Perhaps so, but why post that here?
whY Ya’ Gotta be a Hatuhh?
ROFLMAO
You are bad! in a goooood way!
Both sides are willing to take away rights (and rightfully so I might add). I personally think we should have laws, but every law is a taking away of someone else’s right.
So if we Conservatives legalize drugs and prostitution and keep out of Abortion we will be loved and loving?
I wish there was a triple face palm.
Oops! Wrong answer!
May you survive to learn the ways of the zot before it gets you.
Fail troll is fail.
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